Harper’s Island (2009)

Posted on August 13, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard Reply

Creator: Ari Schlossberg
Main Cast: Elaine Cassidy, Christopher Gorham, Katie Cassidy

‘Mayday, mayday – this is Harper’s Island requesting immediate assistance’

Seven years after John Wakefield murdered six people on Harper’s Island, including her mother, Abby Mills braves returning to her childhood home for the wedding of her best friend Henry Dunn and rich girl Trish Wellington.

Despite Wakefield being long dead, it soon becomes clear that someone has murderous intent towards the wedding party – who have a fair few secrets of their own to grapple with as well.

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Cargo (2017)

Posted on June 11, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard Reply

Director: Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling
Writer: Yolanda Ramke
Main Cast: Martin Freeman, Simone Landers, Anthony Hayes

‘Time is there. Every second. And we are going to make it count.’

In the aftermath of a viral outbreak (the word ‘zombie’ isn’t actually mentioned in the film), a father goes searching in the Australian outbreak for someone who can help him and his baby daughter when he becomes infected, and has 48 hours before the virus takes hold.

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The Funhouse Massacre (2015)

Posted on May 7, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard Reply

Director: Andy Palmer
Writer: Ben Begley
Main Cast: Scottie Thompson, Ben Begley, Jere Burns

‘Dahmer and Bundy and Gacy – they’re just the ones that got all the press. We house the ones that you whisper about around the campfire.’

Six psychopathic killers escape from a secret secure facility, and take over a Horror Funhouse at Halloween. Carnage ensues!

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The Rezort (2015)

Posted on May 7, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard Reply

Director: Steve Barker
Writer: Paul Gerstenberger
Main Cast: Dougray Scott, Jessica De Gouw, Martin McCann

‘If we can treat the dead like meat, who’s to say the living won’t be next?’

In a world that has managed to survive a mass zombie outbreak, a luxury island – The Rezort – offers wealthy guests the opportunity to hunt the last existing zombies for sport. The safari is strictly controlled to ensure guests are in no real danger, until the security systems are brought down by a rogue virus and the hunters once again become the hunted.

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Train to Busan (2016)

Posted on May 7, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard 1

Director: Sang-ho Yeon
Writer: Joo-Suk Park, Sang-ho Yeon
Main Cast: Yoo Gong, Su-an Kim, Yu-mi Jung

‘I’ll take you to Mum, no matter what’

A father and his young daughter board a train bound for Busan, unaware that a zombie outbreak is taking hold of the hometown they’re departing. Unfortunately, one of the infected boards the train at the last moment and chaos ensues. The belief that Busan has been secured against the outbreak leads the survivors to fight to reach their destination, at all costs.

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Hell House LLC (2015)

Posted on April 30, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard Reply

Director: Stephen Cognetti
Writer: Stephen Cognetti
Main Cast: Ryan Jennifer, Gore Abrams, Jared Hacker

‘We had no business being here’

A mockumentary, seeking to uncover exactly what happened when a tragedy at a haunted house attraction resulted in the deaths of 15 people. Eyewitness reports and visitor videos from that night had not shed much light on the mystery, but then a survivor comes forward with footage from the days preceding the tragedy – documenting the five organisers getting ready for opening night, in the midst increasingly strange happenings.

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Double Bill: Creep and Creep 2

Posted on April 16, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard Reply

Creep (2014)

Director: Patrick Brice
Writer: Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass
Main Cast: Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass

‘I love wolves, because they love deeply, but they don’t know how to express it, and they’re often very violent and, quite frankly, murder the things that they love’

A videographer, Aaron, answers a craigslist call for a well paid one day job up in the mountains. When he arrives, it becomes clear this will not be a straightforward job and his client Josef is a very curious character. Is Josef simply a bit quirky and creepy, or is he deranged?

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Creep 2 (2017)

Director: Patrick Brice
Writer: Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass
Main Cast: Mark Duplass and Desiree Akhaven

‘What am I doing trying to make the films I used to make? What if I made a documentary? And this is where you come in.’

Sara makes documentaries about society’s outcasts, and cannot resist travelling into the forest to meet a man who claims to be a serial killer. As you do. If he’s telling the truth, the resulting report will be her pièce de résistance…but at what cost?!

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